Eric has launched his new book.
Just in from Eric Walberg
Qods Interview: Resistance grows - Sunni scholars fatwa calling for jihad
Qodsna: As you know, Israel resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza and has shattered the Gaza ceasefire with Hamas adopted on 19 January. Israel has resumed weaponizing starvation in Gaza by its decision to break the ceasefire agreement. Israel has broken international law by blocking aid to Gaza. What’s your opinion? What should we do to stop the Israeli crimes against Palestinians? How can the international community help Palestinians get rid of the Israeli occupation?
Eric Walberg: The tragedy is being played out before our eyes. It is obscene but US-Israel is in control and there is little we can do. The only time resistance is shown by Hezbollah, the Yemenis and Iran. US-Israel threatens them with annihilation too.
Peace & Socialism
Review of Mickey7: Sci-fi antidote for the age of genocide
Are you overwhelmed by Israel, Trump, starvation, drones, hypersonic monstrosities, doubling our 'defense' budget, reducing people to things, bloodlust? Did I mention ISRAEL?
I turn to sci fi when the world looks/ feels super bleak. Mickey7 is a 2022 science fiction novel by Edward Ashton with a sequel, Antimatter Blues, and a film adaptation, Mickey 17,
Presstv interview: Egypt's nonstarter for Gaza -- dispense with Palestinian resistance
Sisi has his own Muslim Brotherhood resistance in mind. i.e., arrest, torture, kill the heroes.
But even that isn't good enough for US-Israel.
Culture & Religion
Review of Curtin, At the Lost and Found: Finding the spectacular in the society of the spectacle
The internet, computers have been a boon to essayists like Edward Curtin (and me!). He/you/we can publish at online sites (DissidentVoice.org is a favorite for us) and then publish our screeds in book form if we are prolific and eloquent enough. Curtin was a philosophy/social theory prof at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. This collection of Curtin's articles, At the Lost and Found (2025), is a case in point. There are some fine ones, certainly his introduction and his opening ones are challenging postmodern forays for the uninitiated and still readable. His students were very lucky.
As Trump-Musk take a hatchet to American higher education, I marvel at the thought that there are hundreds if not thousands of Curtins (maybe not as good)
Sacred bridge?!
Yes, sacred transport, even sacred ping pong. But can a card game have a spiritual grounding?*
There's no question in my mind that bridge is the king of card games. It pushes the mind to the limit.
Books of Interest
Essays on War and Peace ebook by Eric Walberg
Ramadan 2025: Islam in Canada -- unity through diversity
Review: Dan Steinbock, The Fall of Israel: The Degradation of Israel’s Politics, Economy & Military, 2025.
Interview with Opperman Report July 2024 -- Ames and Cold War then and now
Review: Scott Anderson, Four CIA spies at the dawn of the Cold War -- a tragedy in three acts (2021)
Review: Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher (2020)
Review: Richard Falk, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, Clarity Press (2021)
Travel
Sacred transport
Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts. No!
Well then, don your bicycle helmet. No! Drivers actually pay less attention to you if they see a helmet, figuring they're not likely to kill a smarty-pants, and are less careful around you (2x as likely to pass close). A toque or baseball cap in case of rain is more practical.
No-carbon-footprint travels to Toronto's outer spaces
Walberg's bike adventures in and around Toronto (ok, walking around Gaspe and some religion too)
Peterborough-Oshawa-Toronto by bike 14 July 2024
Biking the Grand: Reinventing tourism 06 July 2023
Shakespeare by bike 25 June 2022
Middle East
Qods Interview: Resistance grows - Sunni scholars fatwa calling for jihad
Qodsna: As you know, Israel resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza and has shattered the Gaza ceasefire with Hamas adopted on 19 January. Israel has resumed weaponizing starvation in Gaza by its decision to break the ceasefire agreement. Israel has broken international law by blocking aid to Gaza. What’s your opinion? What should we do to stop the Israeli crimes against Palestinians? How can the international community help Palestinians get rid of the Israeli occupation?
Eric Walberg: The tragedy is being played out before our eyes. It is obscene but US-Israel is in control and there is little we can do. The only time resistance is shown by Hezbollah, the Yemenis and Iran. US-Israel threatens them with annihilation too.
Presstv interview: 'Negotiations' or televised turkey shoot?
Netanyahu and Trump are peas in a pod. Destroy your society to save the empire.
With Saeb Shaath. I'm on at 8.00 and 15.00
https://preview.presstv.ir/ptv///program/20250318/spotlight18032025.mp4
Europe, Canada & U.S.A.
Presstv interview: Trump's tariffs fund his massive tax cuts
Ever heard of the 1930s Depression? Tariffs? Tax cuts? Butterfly effect?
with E Michael Jones
AI-Walberg: Twilight of Hegemony: A Multipolar Dawn
hi readers, I have just let AI write a book for me. I haven't read it yet. how's that for irony. I'm publishing my book which I haven't yet read, let alone written! it cites books i haven't heard of and seems to be crazily formatted. i tried to clean it up. a quick glance suggested it was thrown together without much actual use of my writing. i will write a review of it. lol
Twilight of Hegemony: A Multipolar Dawn
youbooks.com & Based on content by Eric Walberg
Twilight of Hegemony: A Multipolar Dawn
Chapter I. Twilight of Hegemony: A Multipolar Dawn
Chapter II. Introduction: A Critical Eye on a World in Crisis
Section 1. My Journey of Understanding
1. Early experiences and influences shaping the author's worldview.
2. The author's background in journalism and international relations.
3. The author's personal experiences in the Soviet Union and their impact on his views.
Section 2. A Methodology of Critique
1. The author's approach to analyzing global events: critical analysis, historical context, and nuanced perspectives.
2. Deconstructing dominant narratives and challenging established power structures.
3. A commitment to truth-telling and exposing hidden agendas.
Section 3. Setting the Stage: Key Themes and Questions
1. Introduction to the core themes that will be explored in the book: imperialism, conflict, alternative visions, and the search for meaning.
2. Preview of the structure and argument of the book.
Russia and Soviet Union
Подарок Трампа Сирии: мир во всем мире, благоволение к людям
Russian translation of РI считает, что главным событием 2018 года стало решение президента Трампа вывести войска из Сирии. Этим действием президент немедленно противопоставил себя не только всему вашингтонскому истеблишменту, но даже собственной команде национальной безопасности, состоящей в основном из сторонников американской империи разной степени радикальности. Канадский геополитик, автор книги 2011 года «Постмодернистская империя», публицист в целом левых взглядов, но симпатизирующий консервативному анти-интервенционизму, Эрик Вальберг в специальном материале для нашего издания попытался суммировать все те чувства, которые испытывают сегодня противники американского империализма в англо-саксонском мире. Будем надеяться, что сегодняшнее сообщение о приостановке вывода американских войск из Сирии не свидетельствует об изменении политического курса президента и что в 2019 году мы увидим наконец долгожданную нормализацию отношений России и США.
Внезапно президент Трамп перестал быть дураком, марионеткой своих генералов. Его последние, исторические твиты взорвались как настоящие бомбы. «Уход из Сирии не был сюрпризом. Я выступал за это годами, и шесть месяцев назад, когда я об этом говорил публично, то согласился подождать. Россия, Иран, Сирия и другие — это локальные враги ИГИЛ. Мы выполняли там (так! опечатка, должно быть «их». — Э.В.) работу».
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Canadian Eric Walberg is known worldwide as a journalist specializing in the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia. A graduate of University of Toronto and Cambridge in economics, he has been writing on East-West relations since the 1980s.
He has lived in both the Soviet Union and Russia, and then Uzbekistan, as a UN adviser, writer, translator and lecturer. Presently a writer for the foremost Cairo newspaper, Al Ahram, he is also a regular contributor to Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Global Research, Al-Jazeerah and Turkish Weekly, and is a commentator on Voice of the Cape radio.
